Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

67 reviews

brynalexa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

I waited on this book because I don’t usually read books by white men. I gave in and got it on Libby and was immediately hooked. How can a book so serious be so funny and adorable?!  There’s almost nothing I can say about setting or characters that make isn’t a spoiler but both are phenomenal. I could barely put this down. 

Just a couple notes, one chapter used “stupid” more than a dozen times which is completely unnecessary (cloudy, tired, drugged, distracted, not 100% were all perfectly fine options) I also disagree with the author’s choice

on using he/him when gendering Rocky. The author even mentioned it being a choice and then when he got more information decided to stick with He/him. What a wonderful opportunity it could have been to be more inclusive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Death, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content, Sexism, Cannibalism, Ableism, and Vomit

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

This book was just boring to me. I had to fight to stay focused during the science parts, I didn’t feel that much connection with the main character(s), and the writing wasn’t anything to write home about. The parts I was most invested in were the flashback scenes because I was curious to see how Ryland ended up on the mission in the first place. This was the shining star of the book in my opinion, because it really highlights the character growth that he goes through. (And the plot twisty nature of it doesn’t hurt.) And I’ll admit it, it makes the emotional climax of the book hit that much harder. I was in tears (something that usually doesn’t happen while I’m listening to audiobooks). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: War, Drug use, Gun violence, Alcohol, Cannibalism, and Sexism

berrytart's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I loved this book so much!! 

The science stuff was a bit hard, but I still loved reading it, because the way it was written made it fun to read!

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get into sci-if!

I love Rocky so much, he is so adorable, Ryland is an amazing character his development is great!

The final scene is so cute i’m glad Rocky and Ryland got to stay together!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cannibalism

temymm's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Death

Minor: Animal death, Cannibalism, Suicide, and Alcohol

Cannibalism notes: it’s not really cannibalism -

the mc has his cells cloned to make human meat

Animal death notes: brief description of animal testing Alcohol: a character drinks in celebration a few times Suicide:

there is a section where characters discuss their preferred method of death to prepare for the end of their journey. None of these suicides occur. Mc refers to the mission as a ‘suicide mission ‘ frequently.

aymahal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Blood, Drug abuse, and Cannibalism

atomicrobin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Violence, and War

seapotatohowisitalrtaken's review against another edition

emotional funny informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

Minor: Cannibalism

toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was just a wonderful book, I didn't know anything about it going in besides that I had enjoyed the Martian and this definitely delivered on that same vibe. I was not prepared for

Alien friendship and can now mark this as "books that make me cry about alien spiders"

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Death, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Drug use, Confinement, and Alcohol

Minor: War, Child death, and Cannibalism

asifsyed's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Minor: Suicide, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Body horror, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

thecrimsoncorsair's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Great book that kept me invested throughout. I loved, loved, loved Rocky; and his friendship with Grace - the MC. I honestly loved Rocky far more than I did Grace. Ryland Grace is pretty much your typical mary sue, self insert type that Weir loves to write. So Grace often got on my nerves. Dude's a junior high school science teacher. I don't care if he was once in higher academia, he's just too good at everything he does. It got pretty annoying at times. But overall, I ignored it because I wanted to know what was going to happen, and if everything was going to work out. There were a few issues that were grating. One, it was a little too USA, USA, USA! At times. And there's one particular line about the US military being soooooo amazing that made me want to gag, but it is sparing. I just don't recall there being this much America-riding in his other books. I don't know, it was pretty bad when it happened though. Two, I'm not perfect at writing, but I'm also not an author. I noticed two very glaring errors in the book, and I couldn't believe it. One was so obvious I'm honestly shocked it got by multiple editors. I accept errors in self published books, or lower end books. It's to be expected. But from a book at Weir's level, it was kinda bothersome. Three, there was a lot of diversity. Multiple different people from multiple countries. I will give him that. But I swear to god they were all stereotypes of those countries. All of them. It was driving me nuts, and then my hunch was reinforced when he introduced the most stereotypical Canadian imaginable, and even wrote his dialogue with Canadian inflection. Lol. Dude. You can do so much better with international characters. I mean come on. Other than those small gripes I was immersed in the plot. I was immersed in the characters, and even the technobabble was interesting to read. With a little bit of overexplanation, but that's pretty typical of his books. The absolute best part, and where this book shined was the relationship between Rocky and Grace. And just for that alone, the book was absolutely worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, War, Confinement, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Body horror, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Excrement